Digital Media, Attention Fracking, and Youth Mental Health

This Viewpoint discusses the correlation between increasing social media and device usage, the underlying business model of the attention economy, and declines in youth mental health and proposes solutions to address this.

Corresponding Author: D. Graham Burnett, PhD, Program in the History of Science, Princeton University, 220 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 (dburnett@princeton.edu).

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